Memo to John Moore and Matt Gurney; turn back a few pages in your own newspaper. I couldn’t help but notice the juxtaposition of these two columns by Messrs. Moore and Gurney and the reality out here on the West Coast. I believe it is a complex combination of generational differences, experiences, and attitudes that result in the situation we have at any point in time, including today.

To wit, while we have “home-grown millennials” working for free in Toronto, excellent high-paid trades jobs here on the West Coast go begging, potentially to be filled by Irish millennials; think experience and attitude vs. their generation. In my day, many Boomers weren’t hesitant to pack a bag or two and head to where the jobs were. And unlike the Irish of today, we only needed to cross a country, rather than an ocean. Entrenched as they are, maybe Messrs. Moore and Gurney are the entitled ones; entitled to their opinions, but playing the blame game.

Scott Hoffman, North Vancouver (via Ontario and Alberta).

Matt Gurney’s resentment should be reserved not for all Boomers but for the execrable “teachers” among my generation who brainwashed the millennials in the evils of capitalism, the virtues of Big Government, and the need to kill our economy to save our climate.

Having given over so much power of indoctrination to a leftist elite, I fully admit and regret that my generation — the successor to our nation’s greatest — was too “neglectful, lazy and stupid” to homeschool its children.

Gary McGregor, Ladner, B.C.

Warm-mongers no match for Mark Steyn

I certainly don’t envy anyone who deliberately engages the great Mark Steyn in a battle of wits, but I confess a particular delight in watching Penn State University’s Michael Mann repeatedly put his ‘hockey stick’ in his mouth in the futile attempt to make his scientific manipulations fit the narrative of catastrophic global warming, er, climate change. The day will come, God willing, when Canadians of good conscience will bestow their gratitude upon Mr. Steyn and Ezra Levant for preserving the rights of all to free speech, regardless of how irritating it is to the self-aggrandizing Mr. Mann or his warm-monger in spirit, David Suzuki.

Milan Mijatovic, Windsor, Ont.

What an honest and stunning column by Mark Steyn. Basically it’s OK to publicly criticize unless one goes against the high priests of climate change, or happen to challenge something to do with Islam or is not on side with a proposal brought forth by gay activists. There is far too much litigation going on across this country for people who apparently have had their feelings hurt. I’m a practising Catholic. That religion, along with Christianity in general, is mocked on a daily basis, but I have no desire to bring such people to court about it.

Steve Flanagan, Ottawa.

Unfair family laws hurt our whole society

If a payor (father in most cases) misses support payments due to hardship or misfortune, there are significant consequences imposed by the state. However, should a custodial parent withhold court-ordered access, the other parent lacks any meaningful or immediate recourse in enforcing the child’s right to the access. The police and CAS refuse any involvement in such matters.

Therefore, the only recourse available is to bring the matter back to court where the judges try to “work through” the problem rather than enforce their court orders and impose a consequence. Meanwhile by the time the access parent ends up back in court, due to the complexities of the preparation of a contempt motion, months have passed and the issue is not as meaningful or pressing to the judge.

Canadians need to apply pressure to their MPs to put family law reform front and centre on the national agenda for debate in Parliament.

Gordon Akum, Toronto.

The government may not be responding to our tragic family court system, but rest assured, society is busy compensating for the toxic negativity, false accusations and denied access to fathers. We see endless video games, eating disorders, addictions of all kinds, youth gangs that double as family, celebrity and bling culture that act as role models to kids. Or worse, sexting, online bullying, cutting, anxiety, depression, drugs, jail or suicide. Didn’t this demise in our culture begin over the last 30 years — when fathers began disappearing?

A lack of equal shared parenting manifests itself in countless, more complex and deeper ways and all the forced support payments in the world just won’t fix it.

Paul Coulombe, Toronto.

A solution to ‘vanishing Jews’

Letter-writer Ian Liberman, refers to the “ritual Jewish atheist” who still goes to synagogue because of the traditions, but who doesn’t believe in the supernatural. Yet, it is this disconnect between one’s personal beliefs and the words of the traditional liturgy that drives many cultural/secular Jews away from congregational life, leading inevitably to assimilation.

For these Jews who still seek to share Jewish traditions in a communal setting, but want to express their beliefs with integrity, there is a solution: Humanistic Judaism. This newest branch of Judaism meets the needs of many modern-thinking Jews and intermarried families, as well, keeping them connected to the Jewish people. Perhaps, it will even help ensure that the “vanishing Jews” won’t be vanishing quite as quickly.

Sandi Horwitz, Toronto.

Former Nazi killed Christians as well as Jews

Your article quotes Rev. Robert Gahl of Rome’s Pontifical Holy Cross University as saying that “[the] decision to refuse [Nazi war criminal Erich] Priebke a church funeral was …done to take into account the outpouring of emotion … particularly in Rome’s Jewish community.”

The fact is that the great majority of his victims in the Ardeatine Caves massacre were Christians, including at least one priest.

T.R. Simon, Thornhill, Ont.

What Post readers would do with his body

The final disposal of convicted Nazi Erich Priebke does pose a problem. An obvious solution would have been to leave him curbside on a garbage pick-up day. However, I suspect no self-respecting dump would have accepted him.

Frank Glazier, Toronto.

I would have put his body in a body bag and flown it over the spot were the Americans dumped Osama bin Laden in the sea, and let him be eaten by the same fishes, so as not to contaminate any more sea animals.

Arthur Rubinoff, Toronto.

I know what I would have done with this monster’s body; put it in a sack and dumped it in the sea.

Tom Singer, Burlington, Ont.

There was a very simple solution to the problem of disposing of Major Erich Priebke’s remains. We should have disposed of them in the same way one gets rid of used toilet paper. First cremate the body and then flush the ashes down a handy toilet. Problem solved.

Raymond Gork, Toronto.

Alice Munro’s stories just seem so true

Like letter-writer Mindy Alter, I don’t go seeking out works by Alice Munro; I always find them a bit of a slog, simply because they are so much like real life, just as complicated and full of painful contradictions.

The other day another paper printed The Beggar Maid in its entirety. This short story had the impact of a novella, and then some. As a fellow writer, I am humbled by the level of maturity in Munro’s work, and agree with Cynthia Ozick’s assessment of her as a truly “terrifying writer.” It’s been said of American novelist Bernard Malamud that anything he wrote had the feeling of being true. Ms. Munro has a similar gift.

Ron Charach, Toronto.

Actions speak louder than words

If Iran is sincere in wanting a peaceful diplomatic solution and gain the trust of Western powers, it should show by their actions. Actions speak louder than words. Until there is clear evidence that there is a sincere shift of policy, strict sanctions should not be lifted. Negotiations had been going on since 2003 with stalling tactics and buying time as the Iranians move closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb. The West must be careful and wise in dealing with President Hassan Rouhani, a man who would harbour evil intentions against Israel.